To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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